Florian @

we had a customer who wanted to have msg-files indexed. so far so good - wss 2.0 didn't provide in standard a msg-ifilter. First of all we wanted to figure out the free one http://www.geocities.com/msgifilter/ , but also after 50 newindexing and also go into the deep wood of sql-server indexing

(sp_fulltext_service  Changes Microsoft Full-Text Search for SQL (MSFTESQL) service properties http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175058.aspx
 exec sp_fulltext_service 'load_os_resources' 1;
-) sp_help_fulltext_catalog_components  Returns a list of all components (filters, word-breakers, and protocol handlers), used for all full-text catalogs in the current database.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190481.aspx

full-introduction to ifilters:
http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/csharp/cs_internet/desktopapplications/article.php/c10245/)

we didn't got the msg-indexing to work...

 

thanks god the customer decided to upgrade to sharepoint 2007 and here the i-filter of msg is standard.

 

currently we only have the problem that the attachments of an msg are not indexed (but I'm definitly sure that a have red that this is supported - I will try to find information about this and keep you up-to-date)